It's the second edition of our year-long civil discourse experiment.

Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and contributes to the second most cancer-related deaths in men in the United States – and in North Carolina. That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control. But in 2015, the cancer that killed the most North Carolinians: lung cancer.

Coastal communities on barrier islands will not exist as they are in 30 to 150 years from now.

There are positive signs in the Cape Fear region that initiatives to combat the opioid epidemic are making headway.

The New Hanover County Board of Education will meet next week to discuss the future of Williston Middle School. At issue is whether it will become an arts school, a high school, or perhaps stay as it is. That’s just one of several items the new Board is working on this year. And those items come with some history.

New Hanover County’s NAACP celebrates its 100 th anniversay this year. Founded nationally in 1909, the local chapter of the National Association For The Advancement of Colored People launched ten years later.

New Hanover County redistricting of its high schools is complete; as for middle schools, the process continues. The Board of Education plans to assign middle school and elementary school students in 2021.

Donald Antrim is a MacArthur Genius . He’s written three novels, Elect Mr. Robinson For A Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist .

Wilmington’s music scene is “on fire.” That’s according to one of our guests on this edition of CoastLine.

It was February 28 th , 2013, nearly six years ago, that WHQR broadcast the pilot episode of CoastLine. It was an hour on what was then the hottest topic in town: the debate about opening a cement plant in Castle Hayne.